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Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters.

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Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters.

Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • stacked text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with scattered pink plus-shaped stars. Four identical instances of the text "I Love My Friends" are arranged in a 2x2 grid, each rendered in dark blue pixelated letters with a slightly blurred effect. The text is stacked vertically with "I" at the top, followed by "Love," "My," and "Friends" below. The stars are distributed across the background, with some appearing larger and more prominent than others. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic.

Description

  • Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807030836472135217329

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background pink stars text
  • I Love My Friends pixelated
  • retro digital buddy icon
  • stacked text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: stacked text grid stars

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I Love My Friends

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink plus-shaped stars
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • stacked text
  • I Love My Friends
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • blurred text effect
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807030836472135217329
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3f2747db4d67dc13aea205b20765745e023c96777e42bc2f1246a67a0fc840b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
a3f2747db4d67dc1
SHA-256
a3f2747db4d67dc13aea205b20765745e023c96777e42bc2f1246a67a0fc840b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103452

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934324onnx/unsafe0.103452onnx/nsfw0.069172onnx/nsfl0.034280
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Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 837

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • dark blue

Composition

  • stacked text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with scattered pink plus-shaped stars. Four identical instances of the text "I Love My Friends" are arranged in a 2x2 grid, each rendered in dark blue pixelated letters with a slightly blurred effect. The text is stacked vertically with "I" at the top, followed by "Love," "My," and "Friends" below. The stars are distributed across the background, with some appearing larger and more prominent than others. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic.

Description

  • Purple background with pink plus-shaped stars and dark blue text reading "I Love My Friends" in stacked pixelated letters.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807030836472135217329

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background pink stars text
  • I Love My Friends pixelated
  • retro digital buddy icon
  • stacked text stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: stacked text grid stars

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • I Love My Friends

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink plus-shaped stars
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • stacked text
  • I Love My Friends
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • blurred text effect
  • scattered stars
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200807030836472135217329
Archive entry
200807030836472135217329.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807030836472135217329.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807030836472135217329.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016